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Senior Backend Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
65 days ago
Salary
$145K - $184K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience building scalable, resilient APIs and systems with modern JS/TS, with a test-driven approach.
- Self-directed problem solver who can scope work, communicate progress, flag blockers early, and make sound technical and product trade-offs independently while staying aligned with stakeholders.
- Strong opinions, weakly held—someone who pushes back on ideas to drive better outcomes, handles critique without defensiveness, and demonstrates a growth mindset.
- Clear written and verbal communicator who provides straightforward, self-contained updates with necessary context in our distributed, asynchronous environment.
- Focused executor who stays accountable to commitments, resists distractions, and delivers consistent progress even when things don't go as planned.
- Genuinely invested in developer experience, whether you've shipped tools for developers or spent years deeply understanding frontend teams' pain points.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Equity
- Paid time off
- Professional development
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